Kleiden Kämpfen Kochen
Beiträge zur Sachkultur des Mittelalters aus der Perspektive der Living History
hrsg. von Fabian Brenker, Simon Paintner-Frei und Markus Single
ISBN 978-3-86705-092-0
(2025) 192 pages, 53 fig.
 

Since the 1990s, history enthusiasts in Europe have been attempting to gain a deeper understanding of the everyday lives of people in the Middle Ages. This book highlights individual aspects that the authors have explored in recent years. In doing so, they explore different questions and purse different approaches. 

Using historical sources and their own experiments, the contributions illuminate key questions concerning the reconstruction of medieval material culture.

How does living history work? How were veils woven in the late Middle Ages? What do Wolfram von Eschenbach's epics reveal about military equipment? How did daggers develop in the High Middle Ages? How was a sword scabbard made? How was mail armor adapted to the movement of the arms? What else can we learn from fencing books besides combat? Is food poisonous if cooked in bronze pots?